[autocomplete] does not handle escaped characters after selection

[damian.biollo]

With the autocomplete plugin, I specify a list of names and email addresses such as the following:

Me <me@…> You <you@…>

Obviously the angle brackets need to be escaped, so in code, the call looks something like this:

$.autocompleter (["Me &lt;me@…&gt;", "You &lt;you@…&gt;"]);

When it is displayed in the List UI, it is correct -- the angle brackets appear rather than the escaped chars. This is because the fillList() function uses the html() method: $("<li/>").html (...)

But when the value is selected (in selectCurrent), the raw HTML is set to the input control value, with this line: $input.val(v);

This is a bug because now the escaped characters show up instead of the angle brackets.

[dmethvin]

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